[TriLUG] X Transparency

[john mitchell]

Brian Henning wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>   Just trolling for some input on window transparency in X.  I've done 
> a bit of googling and seen some things that mention X.org as a 
> replacement to XFree86 in order to have the transparency feature. 
> Anyone have comments on x.org?  Is it going to be an enormous headache 
> to switch?
>
> Here's my ultimate desire:
> - Automatic transparency for background windows
> - On-demand transparency for active windows.
>
> Anybody have that already?  If so, how are you achieving it?
>
> I'm running Debian Sarge, XFree86, and KDE.  I don't particularly want 
> a different distro or to switch from KDE.
>
   How about:
apt-get install aterm

in my .xinitrc file (or from command line):

aterm  -tr -trsb -fg white -g 80x24+40+16 &
aterm  -tr -trsb -fg white -g 80x24+370+380 &

works for me in:
XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 (Debian 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 20050601051219 
fabbione at fabbione.net)

john mtchell